Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781337912020
Author: Carl Warren, Ph.d. Cma William B. Tayler
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 6, Problem 16E
Break-even analysis for a service company3
Sprint Corporation (S) is one of the largest digital wireless service providers in the United States. In a recent year, it had approximately 60 million direct subscribers (accounts) that generated revenue of $33,347 million. Costs and expenses for the year were as follows (in millions):
Assume that 30% of the cost of revenue and 70% of the selling, general, and administrative expenses are fixed to the number of direct subscribers (accounts).
- a. What is Sprint’s break-even number of accounts, using the data and assumptions given? Round to one decimal place.
- b. How much revenue per account would be sufficient for Sprint to break even if the number of accounts remained constant? Round to one decimal place.
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